[Aztlan] 850 BCE SITE FOUND IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

An 850 BCE site, the Aquattro site, has been discovered in British  
Columbia. It is a large below ground house, clay oven and fire pit.  
The find is rare for this area. Only 4 other such sites have been  
found. The site is even more unusual in that this is the first inland  
site of this date found. Speculation is that the site was used to  
prepare camas lily bulbs to roast and eat.

600 items have been found at the site including arrow heads, spear  
points, small blades and obsidian tools. The site is from the period  
known as the Locarno Beach period when semi-permanent villages,  
basket making, stone knife producing, and huge shell middens were  
produced. No human remains have been found so far. The site will be  
preserved and no building will occur on top of it.

The Globe and Mail has the story here;
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080322.BCBURIAL22/ 
TPStory/National

Here is a tiny URL;
http://tinyurl.com/2vx77w

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